We’d love to see you at these two upcoming events next week!
First, the Joint Subcommittee on Transportation Revenue will be receiving a hearing on the proposed Rose Quarter Freeway Expansion on Saturday morning. This is our opportunity to directly tell the legislators responsible for figuring out how to pay for the Rose Quarter that it’s a ludicrously expensive, destructive, polluting, and unnecessary project, and that toll revenue should instead be spent on traffic safety, maintenance, and diversion projects. ODOT’s own studies demonstrate that implementation of tolling policy will immediately solve the congestion concerns in the corridor, and the $1.9 billion freeway widening project is instead going to induce more driving and rob money we should instead be using to address Oregon’s horrendous increasing in traffic fatalities.
Saturday, December 2nd
10am-12pm; public testimony to begin at 11am after invited testimony
Moriarty Arts and Humanities Auditorium
Portland Community College, Cascade Campus
705 N. Killingsworth St. Portland, OR
Accessible via 4, 44, 72 bus lines, short walk from Yellow Line MAX Killingsworth stop
Second, the same committee will be hosting a hearing on December 2nd to look over ODOT’s tolling proposal. We’re big fans of using congestion pricing to minimize traffic on our roads – unfortunately, ODOT is using congestion pricing to maximize the amount of money they want to extract from motorists and use that giant slush fund to widen more freeways, including the Rose Quarter. We could really use your support to show up and demand investments in safer streets, cleaner air, public transit and congestion relief instead of letting ODOT dictate how the state will spend any new revenue from tolling.
Saturday December 2nd
4-6pm, Portland Community College, Southeast Campus
2305 SE 82nd Ave, Portland, OR
Accessible via FX2, 72 TriMet bus lines